Tuesday, March 25, 2014

American Chemical Society's False Position on Climate

Cheryl Hogue, a writer for Chemical and Engineering News, comments in the the March 3 edition on a new report issued by the US National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society [Great Britain] on a new approach to educating the public concerning climate change. The program is financed by Raymond and Beverly Sackler. Wikipedia says Raymond Sackler is a physician, an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is 94 years old and has pursued a career in psychiatric research and practice, business leadership, and philanthropy. It doesn't say how he made his money. However, Sackler is typical of pseudoscientists, who because he has a medical degree fashions himself as some sort of specialist in environmental matters.
Cheryl doesn't say how we can get a copy of the combined NAS/Royal society report with this new educational approach to the common man, but she does include a picture of a mother polar bear and cub striving to retain equilibrium on an ice flow of reducing size. How heart rending!
While we get nothing out of the supposed NAS Royal/Society report, because there is no reference to it, we do see Cheryl's repetition of the American Chemical Society's position on climate change. She says that in contrast to the NAS/Royal Society report, the ACS recommends specific actions. These include maintaining federal funding for research on climate change and the development of subsidies, taxes, and regulatory incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The ACS also calls for an increase in public and private investments in energy technologies including conservation, carbon sequestration and nonfossil fuel energy sources.
May I remind the reader that Cheryl and the ACS are basing their program on a supposition that burning carbon containing fossil fuels has a significant effect on climate. I say supposition, because no attempt has been made to justify the position. It is in the same category of "witches exist" and there is no need to talk about that part.

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